Consecutive-sheet package oereveiisely-folded material



C. W. MORDEN.

CONSECUTIVE SHEET PACKAGE 0F REVERSELY FOLDED MATERIAL.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 26, I917- IIVVENTOR Charles W- Morale/7.

Patented June 17, 1919.

ATTORNEY rwcmeu-Er CHARLES w; MORDEN, orlroit'rfnnn, oltneon.

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Specification fl tt i a Patented Jnne 17,1919.

' Application mi imetre SeriaINc. 164,720}. 1

To all whomjit may concern Be it known'thatljCni nLn'sW. Monnnn, a citizen ,of"tjlie .,United Statesfand a resi y ofTortland, county ofhfult- 110l'llttl1, SlltllQ of Oregoii;'l1a\einvented certain new and, useful Improvement in dent of the,

Consecutive-Sheet Packages of-Revcrsely- ,f Fol'ded Materialfof which the following is '1 Stated 0f course, in order'to obtain the parallelogrammic form of package a rectana specification.

The object of my inventionistoprovide: an improved packagefor toilet paper,towe1- ing, and slnnla'r articles; that is tosay, putting up such articles in a' form of pac'ltage cheap to manufacture, and especially adapted fornse in an inex 'iensive fixturefsuch, for

example, as illustrated in the patent granted to me May'9,1916,.numbered 1,182,296.,

1 Another object of my invention is toprovide a package so arranged as to feed 'the outersheets forward automatically, thatis, by gravity. 1 I

The details of my invention, and the construction of the strip of paper used for making my package, and the mode of forming the latter are more readily understood from the description of the. accompanying' drawin'gs, in which: 1

F'gure 1 shows diagrammatically a sideedge elevation of a strip of paper creased and divided into partially severed sheets s0 as to be adapted for forming mypackage 1 Fig.2 is a topview of the strip of paper 7 shown in Fig. l; I

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic sidelelevati on showing the result of reversely foldingthe sheets as illustrated in the preceding views;

, Fig. l is a side elevatioirof; aloackage made up from said strip of paper and folded as mentioned; i a Fig. 5 is a front elevationof the package h0 n F v, I

Fig. .6 isa detail showing a modifiedarrang'ement of the transverse slits between'the the sides ofthepaper strip,by j

the "strip is partially cut into of paper, supported'in said inexpensivefix- 1 ture provided by me.

The package of paper, a, consists of ia con- 4 tinuous strip reversely creased at a so as to form, folds b, ,c whenthe paper is folded. When the package is to assume a parallelogrammic shape, the creasesa arealternately spaced farther apart and brought nearer top- V Fig. 2 and 3, the dottedline s, s, the slits or perforations cl dividethe package into a plurality of consecutive folded sheets partially is mad by suitable mechanism which'it is not necessary to specifically describe. It

gethe r, so that the folds will be stepped progr'essivelyas represented by {Figs 3 and 4. The creasing required to produce this result sufli cesto say that itcomprises cooperating "creaserrolls' and creaser blades, in which the latter are arranged to produce the effect sides of the folds, in alinement with said perforations (Z, which notcl1es,-whenthe strip off folded paper is compressed into package form, provide diagonalgrooves at the sides of the package for receiving the supporting members of a wall fixture of the type illustrated in Fig. 7 and comprising a pair of downwardly inclined parallel suppartially severed sheets by means of slits orperforations (Z. 'Notches c are cut in the porting arms i, and a front piece or keeper i j, held in place by the inturned ends a" of the arms a of the wall fixture.

Further details of th1s fixture are g ven in my above mentioned Letters Patent.

Instead of single," long slits (Z, the con nected sheets of the folded strip may be partially severed by a plurality of shorter slits g, as shown in Fig. 6. When the free end it (see Fig. l) ofthe overlying fold b of a because of its beingpartially'sev- Another free end h of then. project, which may be detached from the stripjin the same manner. As shown by diagrammatically represented 1n severed from each other al'id alternately lo- 'catedat the top and the bottom of the pack- Backof the package, on the arms 2' is The age. placed a sheet of heavy cardboard 7c.

inclination of the arms '2' causes a forward feed of the paper by gravltation. The 1nturned ends 71 of the armst' facilitate the tearing off of a sheet from the package, and the descrihed "construction" of my package sheet folded down from the top is pulled for a "ward, such sheet maybe easily torn from the strip, ered by the slitcl. theshe'etp, folded up' from the bottom, will other, (seeFigs. 5; and 6) therefore the sheets underlying the outermost sheet of the package cannot be'torn out with such overly ng sheet, and waste as well' as d sarrangey ment of the delivery operation of the package, cooperatively withits supporting fixture, is prevented; third, the described staggered arrangement of the slits will have the effect of both stiffening and strengthening the package at its weakest point, namely where the slits (Z occur. It isself evident that my package may be formed of two or more superimposed strips. as a, so as toobtain a deliverybf two or i more sheets instead of only one when a unit of the package is removed.

I claim: 1. A package consisting of a continuous strip of material reversely folded into a plurality of folds and having perforations e-X- tending transversely and approximately midway between the creases said folds,

thereby dividing said strip into a plurality of; consecutive folded sheets or units partially severed from each other and alternately located at the opposite ends of the package.

-2. A package consisting of a continuous strip of material reversely folded into a plurality of folds and having perforations extending transversely and approximately midway between the creases of said folds,

thereby dividing saidfstrip into aplurality of consecutive folded sheets or units partially. severed fi'on each other and alt nately located at the oppositeends of the package, the creases of the folds being-alternately spaced farther apart an d nearer together, for the purpose set forth, a.

.3.;.;Aj package consisting of a continuous 1 strip of material reversely folded into a plu- I rality of folds and having perfl irations ektending transversely and approifimately midway between' the creases of said folds, therebvdividingsaid strip 111 a plurality of consecutive folded sheets or units par ;tially severed from. each otheirand alternately located at the opposite ends of the package, and the sides of the folds having notches approx mately alined with said perforations, said notchescoustituting grooves for the purpose set forthlf strip of material reversely liIllf-YgOf. folds and having perforations exporting members of a wall fixturej for receiving the supporting members of a wall fixture.

4. A package consisting of a continuous strip of material reversely folded into a plurality offolds, the sides 'of the folds being made with notches constituting grooves for receiving the supporting members ofa Wall' rality of'folds and havingperforations extending transversely and approximately midway between the creases offsaidifolds thereby dividing said strip into afpltirality of consecutive folded sheets or units partially severed from each other and alternately located at theoppositeends of the package, the creases of the folds beingalternately spaced farther apart and nearer together, for the purpose set forthfand the sides of the folds having notches approximately alined with said perforations, said notches constituting grooves for receiving the supporting members of a wall fixture:

6. A package consisting of a'coi'itiuuoiis strip of material reversely folded into a plurality of folds and havingperforations eX- tending transversely and approximately midway between the creases of said folds,

thereby dividing said stri pfin toija plurality of consecutive folded sheets; or'uii'its partially-severed from each other 'and alternately located at the oppositeei'ids of the package, said transverse perforations being located at one and the saines' de of the medial line between the creases of said folds,

x. A package consisting of a coiitinuous folded into a plutendiiig transversely and fapp r mately midway between the creasesof fsaid 'folds,

for the purpose set forth, andthe sides'of the folds having notches approximately alined with said perforations, said notches constituting groovesfor receiving thefsupc ARLEswfMoaDinv.

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the package to assume siibstantially' the thereby dividing said stripinto'a plurality of consecutive folded sheetsjir' unitspartially severed from each other; and-alter- 

